[Federal Register: October 10, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 196)]
[Notices]
[Page 51682-51683]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Information Collection Submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for Approval Under the Paperwork Reduction Act
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has submitted the
collection of information listed below to OMB for approval under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act. A copy of the information
collection requirement is included in this notice. If you wish to
obtain copies of the proposed information collection requirement,
related forms, and explanatory material, contact the Service
Information Collection Clearance Officer at the address listed below.
DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to approve or disapprove information
collection but may respond after 30 days. Therefore, to ensure maximum
consideration, you must submit comments on or before the above
referenced date.
ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the requirement to the Office of
Management and Budget, Attention: Department of the Interior Desk
Officer, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, and to Rebecca
Mullin, Information Collection Officer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
MS 222-ARLSQ, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To request a copy of the information
collection request, explanatory information and related forms, contact
Rebecca A. Mullin at (703) 358-2287, or electronically to
rmullin@fws.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
regulations at 5 CFR 1320, which implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13), require that interested members
of the public and affected agencies have an opportunity to comment on
information collection and recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (We) has submitted a
request to OMB for its approval of the collection of information for
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Employee Exist Survey. We are requesting a
3-year term of approval for this information collection activity. A
previous 60-day notice on this information collection requirement was
published in the October 24, 2000 (65 FR 63617) Federal Register
inviting public comment. No comments on the previous notice were
received. This notice provides an additional 30 days in which to
comment on the following information.
Federal agencies may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not
required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays
a currently valid OMB control number. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife form
number for this collection of information is FWS 3-2186.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Department of the
Interior is the agency primarily responsible for fish, wildlife, and
plant conservation. The Service helps protect a healthy environment for
people, fish and wildlife, and helps Americans conserve and enjoy the
outdoors and our living treasures. To accomplish its mission, the
Service employs around 7,500 of the country's best biologists, wildlife
managers, engineers, realty specialists, educators, law enforcement
agents, and others who work to save endangered and threatened species;
conserve migratory birds and inland fisheries; restore habitats;
provide expert conservation advice to other Federal agencies, industry,
private citizens, and foreign governments; and manage millions of acres
of wildlife lands. The Service Directorate has made it a high priority
to recruit and retain these valued employees. As part of an active
career development program, the Service has decided to institute an
Employee Exit Survey to collect feedback from former Service employees
so that we may discover relevant issues that impact retention. If this
survey were not used, there would be no way the Service could analyze
the reasons for employee separation.
Title: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Employee Exit Survey.
Service Form Number: 3-2186.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Description of Respondents: Former U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Employees.
Total Annual Burden Hours: The reporting burden is estimated to
average 15 minutes per respondent. The Total Annual Burden hours is 100
hours.
Total Annual Responses: About 400 individuals are expected to
participate in the survey. We invite comments concerning this
submission on: (1) Whether the collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of our career development functions,
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the
accuracy of our estimate of the burden of the collection of
information; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of
the information to be collected; and, (4) ways to minimize the burden
of the collection of information on respondents. The information
collections in this program are part of a system of record covered by
the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552(a)).
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Dated: October 3, 2001.
Rebecca A. Mullin,
Fish & Wildlife Service Collection Officer.
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